4. | Braxton Rarlson "Doc" Lawson was born on 14 Mar 1841 in Stokes County, North Carolina (son of Tucker Lawson Sr. and Elizabeth "Betty" Lankford); died on 12 Jan 1927 in Danbury, Stokes, North Carolina, USA; was buried on 13 Jan 1927 in Danbury, Stokes, North Carolina, USA. Other Events:
- Military: 04 May 1861, Stokes County, North Carolina; Enlisted as a Private on 04 May 1861 at the age of 18; Enlisted in Company A, 2nd Battn Regiment North Carolina on 04 May 1861; Absent in arrest on 30 March 1863; Deserted Company A, 2nd Battn Regiment North Carolina on 15 July 1863
- Newspaper: 22 Sep 1887, Danbury, Stokes County, NC; Owner of Mineral Lands in Danbury (Danbury Reporter)
Notes:
Newspaper:
Stokes County Minerals
We learn that one or more realroad Co's want to accertain the fact whether we have iron ores, and other minerals in the section of Stokes just around Danbury. Our word for it, we have in great abundance, but we say come and see for yourselves. This section of Stokes county will furnish more freight to the square mile, than any section of the same extend in the state, we mean in tonage, the freights will be heavy, magnetic iron ore, the hemetites, manganese, graphite and several other minerals, such as lime, mica, asbestos, building stone, etc.
Below we give a partial list of those who own iron and other minerals here, and as we have said before, the existence of those minerals is no theory, some of them having been worked near one hundred years.
J.H Fagg, magnetic iron good out crop, Powell Lawson, undeveloped, Brax Lankford, undeveloped, William Nelson good veins 6 to 8 feet thick, Julius Lawson, undeveloped, B.R. Lawson, undeveloped, William Fagg, old works good vein, Mastin Mabe, good veins.
The above is only a partial list of those who own mineral lands in this section the mineral right on which in most cases may be brought not only reasonable but low considering the real value.
Buried:
Hard Bank Cemetery
Braxton married Lodosca M. Tucker on 25 Feb 1867 in Stokes County, North Carolina. Lodosca (daughter of Gabriel Walter Tucker and Sarah E. Tilley) was born on 18 Nov 1844 in Stokes County, North Carolina; died on 1 Feb 1926 in Danbury, Stokes, North Carolina, USA; was buried on 02 Feb 1926 in Hard Bank Cemetery, Danbury, Stokes County, North Carolina, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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